Tag: php

Before I start this article, I would like to ask one question to you, How many HTTPS links do you see in first page of Google search result? Generally, I get more than 50% for my search queries and major top links belong to HTTPS. It is self explanatory how important HTTPS and SSL is. As SSL is mandatory for safely processing transaction e-commerce website, but here I am not going to talk about security and safety, my concern is SEO. The web is moving toward using HTTPS encryption by default and it is encouraged by Google with announcement HTTPS as a ranking signal in 2014. Chrome and Firefox browsers started to display warning for HTTP (Non secure) websites. So you decided to move on HTTPS. Hold a minute and see the challenges. you will get many examples on Google saying huge drop in traffic after moving HTTPS if not implemented properly. So you must aware of the challenges. In this post, we will move a WordPress website to HTTPS, Setup free SSL and update dependencies to meet SEO guidelines. It is assumed Apache server is used in Ubuntu server.

In this tutorial, we will setup HTTPS with Apache on Ubuntu server and generate free SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt. It is a free certificate authority which can issue free certificates with a valid duration of 90 days and the certificates cost nothing to implement. It is assumed you know the basics and importance of HTTPS and SSL in terms of safety and security.

It is common to use Google Custom Search for WordPress Site because of its speed, search algorithm, trustability, security, no need of server resources and database load for indexing..etc. This post will explain how to add Google Custom Search in your WordPress or PHP site without any plugin.

I was working to setup development environment of this website on Ubuntu 14.04 virtual machine. So decided to write a post on it. This post explains how to install LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) on Ubuntu 14.04.

In your web app, If you don’t want to store images on your hosting to save space and bandwidth, Flickr is the best option for you. Flickr is the most popular online photo management and sharing app. phpFlickr is an open source wrapper class of Flickr’s API to upload and retrieve pictures and related information. This post explains how to display user photo in profile page when user logs in.